brill | (noun) European food fish | Synonyms: Scophthalmus rhombus |
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brilliance | (noun) a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted | Synonyms: blaze, glare |
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(noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: grandeur, grandness, magnificence, splendor, splendour |
(noun) unusual mental ability | Synonyms: genius |
brilliancy | (noun) a quality that outshines the usual | Synonyms: luster, lustre, splendor, splendour |
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brilliantine | (noun) a pomade to make the hair manageable and lustrous | - |
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defibrillation | (noun) treatment by stopping fibrillation of heart muscles (usually by electric shock delivered by a defibrillator) | - |
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defibrillator | (noun) an electronic device that administers an electric shock of preset voltage to the heart through the chest wall in an attempt to restore the normal rhythm of the heart during ventricular fibrillation | - |
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febrility | (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febricity, fever, feverishness, pyrexia |
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fibril | (noun) a very slender natural or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: filament, strand |
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fibrillation | (noun) act or process of forming fibrils | - |
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(noun) muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination | - |
myofibril | (noun) one of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber | Synonyms: myofibrilla, sarcostyle |
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myofibrilla | (noun) one of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber | Synonyms: myofibril, sarcostyle |
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neurofibril | (noun) Any of the long, thin, microscopic fibrils that run through the body of a neuron and extend into the axon and dendrites, giving the neuron support and shape. | - |
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nombril | (noun) the center point on a shield | - |
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tumbril | (noun) a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution | Synonyms: tumbrel |
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